According to SSP's DavidNYC (http://www.swingstateproject.com/)Fmr. Democratic Governor Tony Knowles is going to run agenst Republican Governor Frank Murkowski or whoever the GOP nominee is. Tony Knowles will easily clear his primary field out and is a top-tier challenger to Murkowski. On the GOP side Murkowski will have to deal with a hard Republican challenge for the nomination. Murkowski is very unpopular his approval ratings in the 20's (2nd worst in the country). I personally wanted Knowles to run for the senate in 2008 but indeed this is great news for the Governors race. I think this is now at least a Lean D race.  

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Three polls came out today on Senate races.

The first is the Pennslyvania Senate race from Rasmussen:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/2006/Sta te%20Polls/April%202006/Pennsylvania%20S enate%20April.htm

Casey (D) 51%
Santourm (R) 38%

NJ Sen: Taken from Q-Pac. (no link yet.)

Menedez (D) 40%
Kean Jr. (R) 34%

and RI from Rhode Island College: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/27/ 145228/370

Chafee (R) 51%
Whitehouse (D) 32%
Undecided 17%

Whitehouse (D) 50%
Laffey (R) 27%

Republican Primary:

Chafee (R) 56%
Laffey (R) 28%

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CQpolitics a respected Website that monitors polls and trends in elections has changed it's ratings on six house races. All six changes bring good news for Dems.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/04/editor s_note_upcoming_rating_c.html

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Nagin and Landrieu go into a runoff no surprize though I am surprized Nagin pulled off with 30%+ allthough that being said about 65% voted for anybody but Nagin. Here are the Results i saw

Nagin (D) 39%  
Landrieu (D) 28%
Forman (D) 17%
(everybody else got less.)

My own personal favorite was Tom Watson but I like Landreu over Nagin so i'll support him though i'm not from New Orleans I just hope as an outsider that Landrieu pulls it off. Also I hope Watson considers running agenst William Jefferson (D-CD-02) in a primary challenge Jefferson needs to go.

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I saw these numbers over at Swing state Ohio blog so thought i would share them. If they have allready been put here i'm sorry i'll delete this post but if not check it out: http://swingstateohio.blogspot.com/

The poll was done by Rasmussen.

Ohio Governor:

Strickland (D) 52% (50)
Blackwell (R)  35% (40)

Ohio Senate:

Dewine (R) 43% (45)
Brown (D) 41% (42)

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Another list of House races that i belive will be competitive in 2006. Take a look let me know if you think i should add or take one off. (Note: This is only Democatic Targets.)

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Dr. Bob Bowman is a Fighting Democrat fighting to get on the FL ballot. This is not an easy task he needs 5,000 signatures to get on the ballot but i suspect that they will need 8,000 in order to get on because our state officals are all Republican and they search for any small errors in petitions. Bob Bowman is a great candidate he wants to pull our troops out of Iraq, he wants to end the NSA wiretap program that is spying on innocent Americans he wants a fair miniumm wage for all Americans. He supports equal rights for Homosexuals and he is very pro-choice. Before i go on about Mr. Bowman here is a map of the district: http://www.bowman2006.com/district15.htm and a little bit about our useless congressman Dave Weldon.

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The title says it all according to MSNBC Cunnignham (R-CA) has been sentenced to 8 and 1/2 years in jail. Have fun there Duke. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/3/18134/53990

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Thought i would try to put togther all of the competitve house races for 2006. From what i count we have 39 targets that we can win in as of right now. Of course Corruption in the house is bound to shake up the target list. Usually during elections the map gets smaller as time goes on but i think the map of targets will acctully get bigger as time goes on. Corruption could put a few Congressman that would be safe into a competitive race all you have to do is look at Bob Ney, Tom Delay, Jhon Doolittle and friends.

  Anyway this is my list let me know what you think. Oh and this is only targets Democrats are after it does not include Republican targets.

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Another poll shows McCaskil beating Jim Talent it is a reserch 2000 poll.

McCaskil 47% (D)
Talent:  44% (R)
Undecided 9%

Looks like we could get a pickup in Missouri. Also according to the poll Govenor Matt Blunt would not get reelected if the election where today of course Blunt isn't up till 08 so that is way to early to call it for Jay Nixion his Main Democratic opponent.

Here is the link:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/06375AF9E03504EA862570FD0020C166?Op enDocument